Review of Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly

You'll enjoy this movie if you like fan service and good animation (although it only has one actual fight in the entirety of its 2 hour run). Shirou is as bland as always, somehow managing to unnecessarily make every single sound that comes out of his mouth some sort of shonen yell or scream, and combined with Sakura's naturally boring fanservice personality, this movie is triggering to watch. Sakura is horny and blushing in every single scene she's in and manages to say "senpai" in an oddly seducing manner at least 2 times for every minute of screentime that she has. Shirou is bland andmakes stupid choices but that's probably just the movie faithfully adapting the traits of a visual novel, which calls for a normal mc that players can project themselves onto and stupid decisions, but that doesn't change the fact that it makes the movie a less enjoyable experience.

The heaven's feel route shouldn't have been adapted into an anime as it makes wayyyy more sense as a visual novel. Also, a lot of people say that the movies are too slow paced but it's actually the opposite. Unless you're familiar with the whole fate storyline, some moments can feel confusing, out of place, and/or sudden, which could've easily been cleared up if the movies took some time to explain them, but they're on a tight schedule trying to fit the entire heaven's feel route (which takes ~18 hours on the visual novel) into 3 movies. Nonetheless, it still makes the movie worse.

Despite my criticism and overall negative experience of the movie, I would still recommend people to watch it since the animation and fights truly are top-tier and it provides audiences exposure to the nasuverse, which is one of Japan's best franchises.